Blade Runner 2049

Denis Villeneuve has described Tarkovsky as his most important influence — the slow revelation of meaning through image and atmosphere rather than plot, the sense of a world that exists beyond the frame, the way time itself becomes a subject. Blade Runner 2049's patience, its willingness to let scenes breathe, its use of landscape as psychological state — these are Tarkovsky lessons. Stalker and Solaris are the real science fiction masterpieces. Both are on Criterion Channel.